Hartford City High School - Retro Yearbook (Hartford City, IN)

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The road to success depends largely upon our understanding and using correctly the English language. A four-year high school English course is now becoming a require- ment for entrance into most colleges. In addition to learning a basic knowledge of the language, junior high students also had a touch of journalistic writing. Freshmen learned the proper procedures of writing business letters, while sophomores and juniors concentrated on writing themes. With a dose of Shakespeare ' s works and Huxley ' s Brave New World Revisited, the senior literature discussions centered around a broad study of culture and man. The great demand for proficiency in our language has definitely caused a tightening of English requirements, which have always been excellent at Hartford High. Sandy Dewitt has little response as she asks for opinions of the class about the sentence structure in her paragraph writ- ten for Mrs. Conquest ' s English class. In Mrs. Henderson ' s eighth grade English class, Dick Weaver seems to know all the answers as classmates Judy Futrell and Jeannine Garrison are puzzled. Pom Oswalt reads the theme she wrote to fellow students in Miss Cliffs class. Senior Literature students chuckle over a humorous point in Nancy Knapp ' s ten minute report on Wuthering Heights.

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Come on kids, we ' ve got that deadline to meet, so on your toes and be nosey-newsmen. Mrs. Mannies ' en- thused English stu- dents, Connie Lillord, Bill Tatmon, Nancy Ann Moore, Donna Wheatley, John Shel- ton, Roy Langdon and Jane Hodge take late Inkspot assignments from Pouletta Mclntire. English v as never more important Guess whose theme is getting the red pencil! As Miss Davis and Carlo Corder enjoy seeing the ox fall, James Elom renders a gloomy frown; it hoppens to be his paper. Ben Hornbaker listens as Mrs. Daniels explains a workbook problem. Fellow English students, David Elliott and Jon Mills also find that studying is a snap without teasing girls and blabbing mouths. Boys, you ' ll be smart to join on all boy class. 28

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Janie Mills must have the answer; but please, Mrs. LIndsey, don ' t call on any of those other folks. Jerry McDonald looks dubious, and Sue Monfort, Rosella Nor- ton, SueAnn Mullen, and Max Tarter ore searching hard for the answer in US his- tory class. No, Magellan wasn ' t the fellow who went around the world in eighty doysl explains Larry Schmidt; Phyllis Pulley takes his word for it. Jack was in the Sharon Stroup secures the boundaries of the Louisiana purchase in the minds of U.S. history students. Waiting their turns are Ann Gosselink and Rick Tyler while Mrs. Ruth Lindsey looks on. Is she right, Ann? It wasn ' t as Hartford City High School goes, so goes the nation when we gave Nixon the edge in the fall mock-election. Encouraged by the social science department, ninety-five per cent of the stu- dents entered the voting machines. Mr. Speaker? I recognize the distinguished gentleman from the state of Rhode Island. Such parliamentary jargon was practiced by Mr. James Lurtey ' s Civics students in their model House of Representatives. One proposed bill was athletes, band members, and cheerleaders should automat- ically receive high grades. Although the repre- sentatives failed to get the needed two-thirds majority to pass any bill, they learned much about our government. Also learning by experience were seniors attending the model United Nations at Anderson College. Of course the usual symbols of social studies weren ' t eliminated. Students kept notebooks, made maps, wrote biographies in addition to memoriz- ing who, when, and where. Teachers of these classes include Mr. Claude Weeks, Mr. Floyd War- ner, Mrs. Wilma Hartzell, and Mrs. Ruth Lindsey. 30